Need HELP recovering files from tar damage

[Rob McMahon]

In article <970 at mplvax.EDU> cdl at mplvax.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein) writes:
>Maybe that's the only good feature of the DEC TK50 cartridge, the write-lock
>mechanism out front where it can be switched over.  Much easier than the
>write-enable ring on a standard 9-track tape.

Ugh, you mean the write lock is on the drive rather than the tape ?  Surely
readonliness is a function of the tape, not the drive.  How much easier is it
to accidentally forget to switch the write-lock on than to accidentally put in
a write-ring ... does this mean DEC TK50s have *no* good features ?

Rob
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